Tricking Iran into World War IV

by Kurt Nimmo - October 31, 2007

If we can say anything about the neocons, it is that they are creatures of habit. Thus, in a playbook repeat of the invasion of Iraq, they are now stringing us along with a rerun against Iran as they daily dole out little instances of theater designed to wear the public down to the inevitability of an attack, long in the cards. “Before his press conference today, President Bush met exclusively with agroup of GOP congressional leaders,” reports Think Progress.

According to Fox News, which spoke with some of the members at that discussion, Bush unequivocally promised that he would attack Iran if Iran ‘were ever to attack Israel.’ Bush told the lawmakers, ‘I know I would respond. … In order for diplomacy to be effective, all options have to be on the table.’” Naturally, Bush did not come up with this promise all on his lonesome—he was coached by the usual neocon suspects.

And who, precisely, did the coaching? “The Bush administration continues to publicly insist that it is pursuing a ‘path of cooperation’ with Iran. But behind closed doors, in meetings such as the one today, the White House seems to be charting a different course. David Wurmser, who until recently served as Vice President Cheney’s Middle East adviser, told a ’small group of people’ that Cheney is pushing for an Israeli attack on Iran:”

[T]he magazine quoted David Wurmser, until last month Cheney’s Middle East advisor, as having told a small group of people that “Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz—and perhaps other sites—in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out.”

According to the report, “The Iranian reaction would then give Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran.”

Wurmser co-authored the neocon attack plan and Rosetta stone, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, mandatory reading for all who are keen to understand what the neocons have in mind for Muslim grandmothers and toddlers, a process euphemistically described as “rolling back” regimes but practically translated into nothing short of mass murder and engineered misery for millions of people.

According to the Telegraph, one “of the most controversial figures in American foreign policy over the past decade, David Wurmser has been accused of spying for Israel, plotting a war with Iran and peddling lies to engineer what he still refers to as ‘the American liberation of Iraq,’” rather the ongoing and apparently endless torture—neocons call this “democracy”—of more than twenty million Iraqis and the calculated murder of over a million.

Wurmser declares there is nothing “neo” about him, as he is self-described as a “medieval sort of guy,” an appropriate description as Wurmser and his fellows are straight out of the Crusades and possessed with anti-Islamic zeal of the sort only a Pope Urban II calling for blood and gore at the Council of Clermont would appreciate.

In addition to Wurmser, Bush has had sit-downs with Norman Podhoretz, the grand daddy of the neocon movement. “Bush and Karl Rove also recently met privately with Norman Podhoretz for 45 minutes, listening to his case for war with Iran. Earlier this month, Podhoretz told CSPAN, ‘I believe President Bush is going to order airstrikes [on Iran] before he leaves office.’”

As Podhoretz views it, if Bush does not bomb the dickens out of Iran he will be guilty of a “dereliction of duty” and will thus be judged by history, although conversely and more likely if he does attack Iran he will be considered one of history’s more outlaw and virulent leaders on par with Hitler, especially considering the ultimate objective of the neocon agenda is to kick off World War IV, a fact readily admitted by more honest neocons such as former CIA head honcho James Woolsey.

All of this out front warmongering—incessantly broadcast by the corporate media, particularity Fox News—over many months has a debilitating affect on the public, now resigned to yet another neocon series of war crimes in their name. “Americans increasingly view a strike on Iran during Bush’s term as inevitable. A new Zogby poll finds that 53 percent of the public believe it is “likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election,” concludes Think Progress.

It is a one trick pony the neocons have used quite effectively to their benefit. Recall months of unmitigated and unrelenting propaganda in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq—propaganda since revealed to be nothing but a passel of lies and flimsy fabrication. If an oft-employed trick works, no matter how threadbare and absurd, there is certainly no reason it will not be cynically used again, especially by the likes of psychopathic criminals.

For now, the American people may indeed conclude the coming attack on Iran is inevitable. As well, many of them may find $6 a gallon gasoline and a full-blown depression inevitable, although of course they will find the latter far less palatable.